"FARM AND GARDEN. Items of Interest on Agricultural Topics. Fruit—Ever Banish the Scrubs Thinning greens for Windbreaks—The Aquilegia Ete. Etc. BANISH TH! To feed gin is the height of § able under the Lands farming 1s i While all the cons the farm, as cates an i plea are lem, bec tor—the one, bie apples vear, the thinne lighter color No Iarge root, an quantitie § flowers riety kn cies, ven if horses sl green gras exceedingly prot a bite jowed t drv i nt to fail, fi Working jured by ailment bay 1s favorite for ecantion timothy 18 i alone. f linseed oil meal, of least once a when the horse stable, and a sligh no harm. The oil tious, but its benef ly to loosen the bowels clover is fed uo need for the oil meal —— eonstipation, shoul wes K. and will be Focis 18 When dav, there will each THE YALUE OF COW MANURE heat favor Cow manure does not It is, therefore, not in ing beds or for Crops w here suits are important. For this it ought always to be partly com post- ed, 50 as to reduce its bulk before it 1s used. It is excellent to mix with manure from the horse stable, because the latter being dryer, is much likely to become ‘‘fire fanged” from the entire destruction of its vegetable fiber. Yet in actual value the slower cow manure is more nearly equal to horse manure than is generally sup- osed. From fattening cattle fed as gn are on hay and oats the excre- ment is quite as rich ac that is from horses, and it does not differ from the quickly for fore early re reason more d. Careful experiments shown that on a full ration fed to young, growing cattle only six per cent. of the nutrition of food went to make growth, With miich cows giv- require al in s long heen to climb bh higher grow in the Jiquid the eggs ts and spread a bucketfnl « ft Dove wdiment on 1t treat care must be taken not to ers egg. If one and in t me contaminate all the eggs in the barrel Another popular metho 1 of preserv- ing eggs is to dissolve four ounces of beeswax in eight ounces of warm olive Anoint the mix The oil will be aborbed by the oil eggs with this ture immediately and the pores filled with the wax. Pack in salt and keep in a dry, cool place This method has proved a decided success with many. American Agriculturist, shell A — ————— Valuable Lessons “Physical enlture is ao helpful, it teaches the children properly.” “How about coming down stairs?’ “Oh, they generally slide down the banisters.” ' Guite Invisible. ble veils? | The Saleslady— Yes, sir, possible to see them. “I'd like to look at some.” It is im- THE DIATOMS a Plait Guided Nansen Tow.ird the North Pole. i Interesting to record the impor part taken by ie microscopi uniding Nun Nort} le Dintom minnte life . microscope, exhibit and plants called diaton gen toward the single-celled nr excessively forms of plant which under the vary characteristic sometimes beantiful forn The yY Are univers lobe, the gl markings tributed galt water, but are particularly pver ant in the polar ses of y 1 the only form { i ind in h lint i CLEATOR {iets be discharged as quickly or as ed There is no smoke only a sharp and low re y as desis y last Asi, As pty another can cartridge ia in- 212 ROOT AS one be SOTEW ed on but stantiy, 300 shots costing cents Mention may be made here of a important modification of the present type of shell, being ex perimented with by the United States Ordnance Department, viz., a hollow steel with thick walls, Heretofore it has been made purposely thick that it may not break in passing through the side of a ship: but this new shell is comparatively thin, with a large cavity to contain guncotion, and kept from breaking up by a cop- per ring around the front end, the projectile being a foot in diameter and as tall as a man, with a smashing energy reckoned at 21,000 foot tons, recent HOw projectile, Brier Root The beet brier-root from which pipes are made comes from the bord- of France and Italy. In the monntainons districts of these ¢onn- roots are dug out which have for ages, and are sometimes a man's body, weighing The wood thus €rs The uew black cloth jackets are trimmed with white lace applique, NOTES AND COMME Antelope Cireat Salt Lake, where the animals have been rrazing for three vears in a semi-wild ttate The island is thirty mi | snd six miles wide, ¥ male with an ideal home, where they are not by , The grasses are on the island are rich and luxnriant, the natural watering places numerous, and the configura tion of the enough to furnishing the interfered with any one surface rough and varied suit the desires of the buffaloes. The animals seem to do well there, and during the present year four calves were born, Acconrnpinoe to statistics recently furnished by Dr. James Wood of Brooklyn, of all the patients applying for treatment at the chief dispensary of that city, no less than ten per cent are tea drunkards. They are not their case point unmistakably to over. indulgence in tea; and that presump- tion, on inquiry, is confirmed by their confessions : ache, vertigo, insomnia, palpitation of the heart, mental confusion, night mare, nausea, hallucinations, morbid | from suicidal impulses—surely a for- midable list of symptoms. These pa- | tienté are of both sexes and all ages, Tue Medical Record quotes some nonulds } XC. receives | ascertain its tone and resonant quality, and to and Then, if it appears to be hangings clapper the ll, and it severe ringing test, partiy to ad i 4 Hiteq wo observe its mechanical excellence adjustment purchaser The making and shipping of a bell usually requires from ten to fifteen days in the smallest sizes Tha larger sizes, i. e., 1,500 pounds and heavier, require more time. A peal of three or more bells requires from forty to ninety days’ time, while a chime of nine or more bells requires from three to six months “Any foundry can, make and select nine of course, readily or ten bells in thing, tone is another, ————— AR A ATES A Four Legged Postal Assistant, A big black dog of uncertain breed seizes the mail bag when it is thrown off the train at a certain rural town in the postoffice. It is said he seems to know the time when the train is due to speak. But he is under the sur otherwise be thought neglectful of his BUTTON THE LATEST FAD, Large Sun /, for These % Cre Oh ltursts t of their vices, and oN € is F getting are 128 and fiies in @ ant 4 cunt there 1GAYSs, ana nien From The primary cause of the low baro- netric pressure which marks the storm centre and establishes the cy- clone is expansion of the air through excess of temperature, The heated air, rising info cold upper regions, has a portion of its vapor condensed into clouds, and now a new dynamic factor is added, for each particle of vapor, in condensing, gives up its modienm of latent heat. Each pound of vapor thus liberates, according to Professor Tyndall's estimate, enough heat to melt five pounds of cast iron; so the amount given ont where large masses of cloud are forming must enormously add to the convection currents of the air, and hence to the storm-develop- ing power of the forming cyclone. Id ie doubted whether a storm could at- tain, much less continue, the terrifie force of that most dreaded of winds of temperate zones, the tornado, withon the aid of those great masses of cone densing vapor which always aceom- any it in the form of storm clouds. — ers Magazine. ng wilk this proportion was increased | 3 inn on the morphine habit from ' duty.
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